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LOD AIR FORCE BASE, Israel - Near the end of the space shuttle Columbia's ill-fated mission, American astronaut David Brown sent a short e-mail to the wife and children of his Israeli crewmate, Ilan Ramon. Moved that Ramon had honored his Jewish religion by flying into space with a Torah scroll smuggled out of a Nazi concentration camp, Brown noted the contrast between the volatile world they had left behind and the peaceful world they saw below. "I was stunned that such a beautiful planet could harbor such bad things," Brown wrote the Ramon family the day before the shuttle broke apart Feb. 1, killing the seven astronauts aboard. Ramon's 15-year-old son Assaf read the...

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